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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I scan the event logs of my servers and return only information about unsuccessful logons?-- LC Hey, LC. We’ll assume that you have enabled security auditing on your servers. If you haven’t, that’s step one. What you’ll want to do is - at a minimum - audit for logon event failures. That way every time someone tries - ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I read only a specific line in a text file? For example, how can I write a script that reads only line 16 in a text file and then stores the value of that line in a variable?-- DL Hey, DL. You know we haven’t answered a question about text files in awhile, and that’s not something we should brag about; after all, it s...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I determine the next available drive letter on a computer?-- TW Hey, TW. Interesting question, and one that crops up from time-to-time. In the old days, when users only had drives A, B, and C, this was easy; you could pretty much guess that any drive letter other than those three would be available. Nowadays, though, ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to move a computer account from one OU to another; however, I don’t know which OU the computer account is currently in. Any advice?-- AA Hey, AA. You know, one thing that marks all the great advice columns - Dear Abby; Ann Landers; Hey, Scripting Guy! - is the fact that, over time, these columns tend to give the same a...

Hey, Scripting Guy! Is there any way to tell which command-line arguments (if any) were used when starting an executable file?-- TO Hey, TO. We don’t mean to cause a scandal in the scripting world - well, OK, we don’t mean to cause any more scandals in the scripting world. But - gasp! - we’re going to cheat a little bit here. This is the first t...